HOW TO DEFY OLD AGE.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18407, 14 August 1931, Page 5

HOW TO DEFY OLD AGE.

DIET IN RELATION TO HEALTH. — “If you know efficient about your i body you can keep oM age at bay," ' declared Mr R. J. Terry, of Auckland, I in a lecture to a crowded audience | al Wellington. In speaking of the importance of I “Diet in Relation to Health,’’ the lecturer instanced the state of the in- ■ habitants of the little island of Bali, I off the coast of Java, where a million people, 75 per cent of whom I were women, had lived for over a ■ thousand years, fairly radiating health. | The people of Bali wore no clothes . above the waist line; was no : mock modesty, but only innocence 1 and health. Unfortunately, into this I Eden had come Chinese merchants, ; who had taught the inhabitants to . forsake their natural mode of living, ■ to reside in wooden houses, and eat I flour and ground rice, with the result that tuberculosis was making its appearance. "These people of Bali,” said the lecturer, 'are happier than you in this room to-night. They have no shops, no theatres; only health and sunshine”. The lecturer went on to give some advice upon dieting. He declared that the excessive eating of lemons and citrus fruits was most injurious to the human system, as they contained too much acid. The slogan. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” he asserted, had only been invented as propaganda by the citrus fruit-grower of California. At th? very thought of a lemon, -saliva changed from a good antiseptic and became alkaline. Human beings wer* not. meant to eat fruit at all seasons of the year. Saliva had an important action upon the starches in the body, and if people did not eat the right food their blood could n-ot possibly be pure.